I just finished reading the complete series of DC Comics' latest attempt at a Justice League International comic. And, by complete, I mean Justice League International #1-12 and Annual #1, because the series has been cancelled. With good reason. It sucked. Gone are the days of 1987's classic Justice League International series as written by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis, with art by Kevin Maguire. The new JLI in DC's New 52 boasted Booster Gold, Fire, Ice, Rocket Red, Guy Gardner, Vixen, August General in Iron, and Godiva. It was a decent line-up and actually had a lot of countries/continents represented (USA, Brazil, Norway, Russia, Africa, China, and England). Unfortunately, the stories were all too lame and didn't capture the spirit or comradery of the original series. The new series failed to use this generous diverse group of characters properly. There was no personalization, no character development, and no decent interaction between any of the teammates.
After OMAC's comic was canceled with issue #8, the pseudo-Hulk joined the team on their lame adventures and brought them down even further. And did I mention Rocket Red is killed, while Fire, Ice, and Vixen are hospitalized, taking all of them out of commission for the remainder of the series? Way to win over the female fan base, DC. Incapacitate all of the superheroines and bring in more males.
The best part of the whole series was at the very ending of Annual #1 when it was revealed (spoiler alert!) that Booster is too late to stop Superman and Wonder Woman from sharing a kiss, thereby affecting future events...
Now if only one single issue of this series could have been as intriguing and mysterious as this scene, they may have been able to survive cancellation.
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